Visit Uganda this season for the best wildlife Queen Elizabeth safari tour to Queen Elizabeth National Park. This 3-day Queen Elizabeth safari tour renders you the most exciting wildlife safari in Uganda. While on your safari tour to Queen Elizabeth National Park, you will be able to do a boat safari along the famous Kazinga channel, a chimpanzee trekking safari in Kyambura gorge and a game drive in Queen Elizabeth National Park for elephants, buffaloes, waterbucks, warthogs, lions, kobs, crater lakes and a variety of bird species. You will also enjoy the most luxurious and lavish comfortable safari accommodation in Queen Elizabeth National Park.
Queen Elizabeth Safari Itinerary:
Day 1: Kampala – Queen Elizabeth
Our driver-guide picks you up from Kampala at your hotel or place of residence by 7:30 am after your early morning breakfast, and then drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park. You will make your first stopover at the Equator crossing for photography and then continue with the visit to the Igongo Cultural Center in Biharwe, Mbarara, to learn and see the evolution of the Ankole culture.
After lunch at Agip Motel Mbarara, you will proceed to Queen Elizabeth as you enjoy beautiful scenery, herds of long-horned Ankole cattle, tea plantations in Ishaka, rift valley escarpment, open grassland, and woodland savanna. You will then get on an evening game drive for sightseeing, which is much more rewarding en route as you drive to your lodge.
Dinner and overnight stay at Mweya Safari Lodge (luxury lodge facility). Meal Plan: lunch and dinner.
Day 2: Full Day in Queen Elizabeth National Park
With the previous day’s memories, enjoy your breakfast ready for a guided primate walk along Kyambura Gorge to look for habituated chimps through the gorge. After a primate walk and lunch, a two-hour boat trip along the famous Kazinga channel is a worthwhile opportunity to see hippos, buffaloes, kobs, elephants, and warthogs among others. This trip also gives visitors a chance to see spectacular bird species.
Dinner and overnight stay at Mweya Safari Lodge (luxury lodge facility). Meal Plan: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Day 3: Queen Elizabeth – Kampala/Entebbe Airport
Begin your day with a cup of coffee, and then an early morning game drive along Kasenyi and Queen’s Mile, which makes visitors encounter elephants, buffaloes, waterbucks, warthogs, lions, kobs, and a variety of bird species. You will thereafter return to Kampala with lunch en route and a stopover at the Equator crossing line in Kasese. Enjoy the winding scenery of the foothills of the Rwenzori mountains as you arrive at Fort Portal. You will then continue to Kampala or Entebbe to catch up on your evening flight back home. Meal Plan: breakfast and lunch
Safari Inclusions
- Transportation by a 4 x 4 Safari Land Cruiser
- Full board accommodation as per the itinerary
- Two-hour boat trip along Kazinga channel.
- Guided primate walk along Kyambura gorge
- Park fees
- Driver/guide subsistence allowance.
- Enroute lunches
- Ranger guide fees
- Two Game drives
- Igongo Cultural visit
Exclusions
- Expenses of personal nature like drinks, laundry, tips, telephone, cigars, etc
After visiting Queen Elizabeth National Park, you can extend your journey with an amazing wildlife game drive in the far northeast Kidepo Valley National Park or extend further north for a wildlife safari to Murchison Falls National Park. Further in Southwestern Uganda, you can opt for the breathtaking gorilla trekking experience in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest.